Trump has looked at history. He has seen that since before the Bolshevik Revolution, the West was trying to take over Russia for their land.
The revolution was due to WW I in which Germany + othes invaded Ruzzia. The rest of the "west" were allies of Ruzzia.
Stalin made Russia strong even if he did it in some really bad ways.
In 1991 Russia broke up the USSR to give the people freedom, in return for no further movements of the West towards Russia. Ukraine is the West breaking those agreements.
Gorvachov broke partially the USSR because they collapsed economically. It was not a "deal", it was a collapse.
The Alaska meeting was a method for Putin to show Trump that he wants peace, but is not joking about will happen if there is further movement against Russia from the West.
The Alaska meeting has resulted in better arming and less restrictions for Ukraine. Other than that, it achieved nothing.
The reason why Trump likes Putin is, Putin is laying it right out in the open. This is something that the western banking systems are not doing.
Western Europe and the banking systems are moving ahead with Bolshevik-Revolution-like activities to steal Russia from the Russians and take over the world.
The revolution changed the Tzars for the Politburo. Ruzzia kept being Ruzzia and even expanded later in WW II and the invasion of Findland by Ruzzia (you probably have forgotten, the Finns have not).
Got inflation where you live in the West? It's your banking system trying to conquer you that is doing it... attempting to take over the world. Wanna send more money to Ukraine but Trump is stopping you? Take out all the loans from banks that you can, because loans are creations of new money, much of which winds up in the hands of Zelensky through the Federal Reserve Bank owners.
You got bitcoin for all that.